December 174$* 



THE roads are good or bad according to the 

 difference of the ground. In a fandy foil the 

 foads are dry and good but in a clayey one they 

 are bad. The people here are likewife very care- 

 lefs in mending them. If a rivulet be not very 

 great, they do not make a bridge over it ; and 

 travellers may do as well as they can to get over: 

 Therefore many people are in danger of being 

 drowned in fuch places, where the water is rifen 

 by a heavy rain. When a tree falls acrofs the 

 road, it is feldom cut off, to keep the road clear, 

 but the people go round it. This they can cifily 

 do, fince the ground is very even, and without 

 flones ; has ho underwood or fhrubs, and the 

 trees on it ftand much afunder. Hence the roads 

 here have fo many bendings. 



THE farms are moft of them fingle, and you 

 feldom meet with even two together, except in 

 towns, or places which are intended for towns ; 

 therefore there are but few villages. Each farm has 

 its corn-fields, its woods, its paftures and mea- 

 dows. This may perhaps have contributed fome- 

 thing towards the extirpation of wolves, that 

 they every where met with houfes, and people 

 who fired at them. Two or three farm-houfes 

 have generally a pafture or a wood in common, 

 and there are feldom more together ; but mod 

 of them have their own grounds divided from the 

 others. 



formed by main force, quite flat, but when again left to them* 

 felves, and grown cold, they return to their original fhape. This 

 kind of wood is called, in Ruffia, Kap, and the veflels made of it 

 Jtapponvie Tcbajbkt, and are pretty high in price, when they are of 

 the beft kind, and well varnifhed, F, 



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